Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-22

N"i my were evidently well ACC TAINTED
ara old-time social as well as business
friends. Tie talk was stocks, of course
how Lackawanna went down and O.
L. up and down, and the discussion was
getllng warm when the oldest member of
the party pulled out handkerchief from
his hip pocket and in the action dropped
something on the floor. All four stopped
talking until the lost object was finally
hshed out from under seat. The finder
gravely examined it, held it up for the
inspection OF the others and asked,
W hat the dence Is t?''
potato" replied the owner, look
ing nitle sheeplsh and reaching out
for it..
What are you carrying it around in
your pocket for? Do you expect fam
coat pocket"
No, but l want my potato. 1t is for
rheumatism
For rheumatism ?''
Yes; don't ycu know that il you
carry potato in your pocket it will cure
rheumatism? 1t hasn't cured me yet,"
he added thoughtfully, caressing his
knee with gentle touch, but l live in
hope. SO give me my potato"
gov mascot and the other three
gentlemen laughed at the superstition of
their friend, VINO went on to tell how he
had suffered for two years with twinges
OF rheumatism and how nothing seemed
to do him any good. The one who had
found the potato said that it served him
right to suffer SO. Any man who did
not know enough to take the proper
medicine ought to have the rheumatism,
and have it bad. too The potato carrier
protested that he had tried all kinds of
remedies and employed the best physi-
clans in New York city, but without effect.
But you haven't tried the right
thing" continued his friend. Ny wife
was troubled the same way for years,
and in four months was completely cured.
l will bet you a dinner for the four of us
at Delmonico's that can tell you a secret
that will make you well before the sum
mer hotels open again. OF course, you
won't believe | shall succeed so l am
sure to win the bet" The average
broker takes to wager as naturally as a
duckling to the water, and OF course the
bargain was agreed to. The young man
fished about in his wallet and at last from
some secret hiding place drew out card
inscribed: " Pardee Medicine Company.
Rochester, N. Y" "You write to the
company" he said, passing over the
card, land get half a dozen bottles of
DIR. Pardee's Rheumatic Remedy, and
if you are not satisfied | shall be glad to
furnish the dinner. But there is not the
slightest probability of my being the vic
tim. | am sure to win and you are sure
to get cured. For four years my wife
was almost constant sufferer. Except
In the brightest weather she was always
complaining. We tried everything, but
somehow the disease seemed to hang on
Then an old doctor. retired from practice.
who spends his time reading, told me
that he had heard OF a discovery of a new
way of treating rheumatism. An old
English army physician, DR.. Pardee, had
discovered a new remedy that treated
rheumatism in perfectly new way-as
disease of the blood. The thing struck
me as at least possible, and with some
little trouble | got pr, Pardee's address
and sent for some of the medicine. The
result you see in this wager. Why, after
the very first bottle my wife was differ
ent woman That was only last wear.
and ever since have gone about prais-
ing DIR. Pardee's Rheumatic Remedy Just
as if l were paid agent Wonder
whether | couldn't collect from the
Pardee company for the good | do? But
here is my station" as the conductor
called out Hanover square, and tie four
friends filed out together.
OF course don't know vet who won
the wager; but | mean to find out as soon
as possible, and will tell you all about il
and the dinner. But this illustrates All
well as anything | have seen in long
time the fondness for betting which pos
esses the average Wall street man. In
no other place in all this green earth
would two men dare to make such
serious thing asrheumatism the subject
OF a wager.
l fell in with an old friend, doctor,
shortly after this and was telling him
about it, when he said Do you know
that discovery you heard mentioned is a
singular thing OF course, as a regular
practitioner | ought not to say ANYTHING
about it, but have looked into the mat
ter some and am convinced that Dir.
Pardee has struck upon something that
medical men have been searching after
for years. Ever since the DAYS when
Socrates taught in Athens and Antony
made love to Cleopatra, man has been
cursed with this disease. Down through
the ages, century after century has
slipped away and still this scourge has
maintained its hold on the children of
men. Liniments, lotions, blisters and
all kinds of local applications have had
their day and passed away. 1t has re-
NAMED for the genius of the nineteenth
century to discover the true cause of the
disease. As the blood is the life. so anv
interruption to the nealtniul course OF
the blood finds expression in this form of
pain. Now, DR.. Pardee has located
the cause of the trouble and seems to
have marked out remedy. 1t is what
men hoped for when the Pyramids were
building and it is what men are hoping
for now. If he has, at last solved the
problem the discovery will take its place
In history by the side of the discovery of
chloroform and the grand inventions OF
the age"
1t seems odd to the laymen to connect
such apparently different diseases as
neuralgia and rheumatism, yet they both
come from the blood, says this physi-
cian and aro eurad hy oop, a.rbo+ a,